What I'm finding a bit disconcerting this evening is this story is on every single ME news site I have viewed, about 14 sites so far. It is, apparently, a big story over there. Stirring up a hornets nest I'm afraid.
Yep.
A look at Islamic militancy in Morocco:
Moroccan security services have identified the attackers in the May 2003 Casablanca bombings as Moroccan members of Salafiya Jihadiya, which is believed to be a general name or description of various militant groups.
One such group is the Moroccan Combatant Group (GICM from its French acronym), which is thought to be part of a larger, overlapping Islamic movement.
The Salafiyah Jihadiya ideological movement was established in Morocco in the mid-1990s, fueled by radical Islamist ideas and by money and manpower from Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf nations.
The groups' members seek to overthrow Morocco's monarchy and replace it with Islamic rule.
But their struggle isn't restricted to Morocco. At least 11 of the 22 suspects jailed after last year's Madrid train bombings also are Moroccan.
And six out of the seven bombing suspects who were found dead in a Madrid apartment after the attacks — in an apparent mass suicide after police surrounded them — also were Moroccan.
At least two other Moroccans were linked to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
Zacarias Moussaoui, a French-born Moroccan, pleaded guilty April 22 in U.S. court to six counts of conspiring with the hijackers in the Sept. 11 plot.
And Mounir al-Motassadek, on trial in Hamburg, Germany, is accused of handling accounts for the hijackers while they plotted their attacks, and of knowing their plans to crash airliners into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050515/ap_on_re_af/morocco_militancy_glance_1
That's the same thing I found....ME site after ME site after ME site, all obsessed with revenge and absolute intolerance. It's a fine mess they've created, and not one that's going to be easily repaired. They've provoked ME relations and human deaths have occurred from the resulting outrage.